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From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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> For all of you who want only to remind me of existence of
> /usr/src/sbin/init.c:  please talk to /dev/null ... 
> 
> Sorry, but this really doesn't help me to know how _the simplest_ possible
> init(8) could look like...

It really depends on what you want to do.  The simplest possible init
is:

main()

{
	while (1)
		;
}

You have two choices:  either start with /usr/src/sbin/init.c, and rip
out the stuff you don't want; or start with the above template, and
add the stuff you *do* want.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.